Can We Ever Perceive Truth? Public Talk ? Brockwood Park, 1975 In this searching public talk, J. Krishnamurti investigates whether the human mind can ever perceive truth directly. He examines how perception is shaped by knowledge, belief, experience, prejudice and the images created by thought. When the observer looks through the accumulated memories of the past, can anything be seen as it actually is? Krishnamurti asks whether truth can be approached through analysis, authority or intellectual understanding, or whether it can be discovered only when the mind is completely attentive, silent and free from distortion. A profound enquiry into perception, consciousness, thought and the possibility of seeing reality without illusion.